Naomi Long
Naomi Long | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast East | |
| Assumed office 26 November 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Tom Hartley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 December 1971 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Political party | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Website | Alliance profile |
Naomi Rachel Long MP (born 13 December 1971) is a politician from Northern Ireland. She is the Alliance Party Member of Parliament for Belfast East.
Long is a Queen's University of Belfast-certified civil engineer by vocation.
She is Member of the Legislative Assembly for Belfast East and Deputy Leader of the Alliance Party. She was revealed to be the new Lord Mayor of Belfast on 1 June 2009, defeating the DUP's William Humphrey by 26 votes to 24 in a vote at a council meeting.
She has taken over the mantle of John Alderdice by representing Alliance in the Westminster Belfast East elections. At the 2007 election, she more than doubled the party's vote in the constituency, placing second ahead of the Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, however the overall UUP vote was 22%. At 18.8%, her vote share was higher than that even for Alderdice in 1998. In 2010 she defeated Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson as East Belfast MP with a result of 12,389 to 11,306.
In 2009, Long was elected as Lord Mayor of Belfast. She became the second woman to hold the post, after Grace Bannister in 1981–1982.[1] She has been elected to Westminster over Peter Robinson, as the first MP for the Alliance Party.
References
- ^ "Naomi Long elected Belfast Mayor", UTV News